This README file was created on 2024-04-26 by Patrick Duddek (ETH Zürich)
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The uploaded datasets support the research article entitled 

'Observations of root hair patterning in soils: Insights from synchrotron-based X-ray computed microtomography'.

Authors: Patrick Duddek, Andreas Papritz, Mutez Ali Ahmed, Goran Lovric, Andrea Carminati
Journal: Plant and Soil
Article DOI: 10.1007/s11104-024-06582-1
Article acceptance date: 21 February 2024

Corresponding author information:
Name: Patrick Duddek
ORCID: 0000-0002-4145-2594
Institution: Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETH Zürich
Address: Universitaetstrasse 16
         8092 Zurich
         Switzerland
Email: patrick.duddek@usys.ethz.ch

The uploaded dataset includes the R-script written to conduct the spatial point pattern analysis. 
The corresponding synchrotron X-ray µCT data is available via:
https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000619872. 


Funding Information:
This project was carried out in the framework of the priority program 2089 “Rhizosphere spatiotemporal organization — a key to rhizosphere functions” funded by DFG, German Research Foundation (project number 403670197).

Acknowledgements:
We thank Caroline Marcon and Frank Hochholdinger (University of Bonn) for providing the maize B73 seeds. We also thank Patrick von Jeetze (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact), Luise Ohmann (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) Halle), Nicolai Koebernick (Soil Science and Soil Protection, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg) and Celia M. Rodriguez-Dominguez (Irrigation and Crop Ecophysiology Group, IRNAS-CSIC Sevilla) for assistance with data collection. We acknowledge the Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland for the provision of synchrotron radiation beamtime at the TOMCAT beamline X02DA of the SLS.